What does the Lord require of you--but to do justice,and to love kindnessand to walk humbly with your God?(Micah 6:8)

12 January 2011

baked potato soup

I originally got this recipe from Laurel Jenkins when I visited their newly-three family in Germany :) Now it's one of our winter favorites. I bake the potatoes when I'm hanging around the house doing chores and leave them on the counter to cool until it's time to make dinner.

8 slices bacon, cut up into little pieces

Cook over medium heat in Dutch oven til rendered and crisping. Remove with a slotted spoon onto paper towels. Pour off about half of the fat from your pan. Add:

1 medium onion, chopped

Cook in drippings until translucent. Add:

2/3 c flour

Stir to prevent lumps. As they turn golden slowly pour in:

6 c hot chicken stock

whisking until liquid thickens. Bring to a simmer. Return bacon to pot and add:

here we are!

currently...

playing with a little girl

making good food

celebrating Advent

growing in faithfulness

almost six years!

working hard, resting hard

Christmas break

in the end

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage…that in the world’s finale at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify what has happened. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)